To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.
The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.
He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.
Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.
Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.
In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.